What are your Late Late Show memories?

Frank McCourt vs Gerry Hannon 1999

"You hammered your Mother"

The Late Late Show used to be on Saturday.

Wonderfully re-enacted here:

I remember watching an episode with a housemate about 2000 or 2001 and an American porn star came on to talk to Pat Kenny about her industry.

Next thing Pat brings on an Irish born again Christian to debate the wrongs of her life style with her.

The housemate spits out his tea, his jaw drops and says, "that's @#$king Maurice from next door".

Sure enough our Ned Flanders lookalike wierdo next-door neighbour was on live TV with a porn star and Pat the Plank!

The "Rita" clip is incredible.

And the poem that Brendan Kennelly acquires such power in the moment. I'm always struck by how saddened he looks when he finishes speaking.

As a moment of live television it's hard to top IMO.

A lot of it comes back when you think about it. The restoration segment where someone would bring in a pile of junk and a couple months later come back with something practically brand new they had no help with apart from the local expert restorer.

Apart from that Gaybo was great at giving a voice to the marginalised and taking down establishment figures like the church and politicians a peg or two. Thats not to say he wasn't also deferential at times.

He wasn't perfect but was good at reflecting and shaping opinions.

Uri Geller bending spoons.

A massive fundraising campaign for a baby boy called Colin McStay to have a liver transplant in America. This was probably ireland's first Gofundme type thing.

Jaysus I'm old....

Gay and Mel Brooks having a shouting match about American spelling.

The young wan who nearly orgasmed when she thought Daniel O'Donnell was appearing on the country music show only to see Mario Rosenstock arriving. She had another claim to fame not long after when she was in court for fraud or being a gangster's moll or something.

The Toyman cursing in front of a child when he spilled a drop of of orange on himself (he's denied this happend so the 800,000+ viewers at the time must be hard of hearing).

It's true, although sometimes it was hard to tell the difference between Pat's tenure on the LLS and the first English speaking chat show to be presented from a jacuzzi!

I just realised Pat Kenny and Patrick Kielty have the same initials, as I was trying to figure this out.

Oliver Reed wrestling with Susan George on the couch!

I think he'd had a few before coming on..

Pop Will Eat Itself during some show in the 90's. I remember watching it as a kid.

Started jumping around and taking the piss, making it entirely obvious that they weren't playing live.

Absolute silence from the audience at the end.

Gas stuff.

Yep, now we can genuinely feel old, though I can just about remember them changing it. I think Kenny Live started on the Saturday night not that long after that.

I do remember Dermot Morgan, Gaybo also gave the young Irish comics emerging in the late 80's and early 90's a lot of airtime. Dylan Moran, Tiernan, Kielty etc.

I can also remember Peter Brooke. The reverend Ian was on it with the wife, his daughter Rhonda was also on it in the late 80's. Kevin Sharkey. Sinead O'Connor. Looking back, he did a lot to get the younger generations to tune in.